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ChronicKristinitis
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March 31, 2024
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Valuable insight into the 30s/40s America
And how cruelly "colored" were treated! White French man married to a "colored" woman enters a big nightclub in US with his wife and could have died from his drink being MIckey Finned. I
To discover how broke an American could be - NO one today is truly poor: there is always food and some kind of support for those who want it- back then, oh man you could literally starve. I didn't read this from the book (yet, I haven't finished reading!) but I do know Benzedrine was OTC and just about everybody was hooked on it. Anyway, the book is a superb resource for old time 40s slang, and what musicians and "the hip" did back then which was about the same as what they do now : Lots of pot smoking!
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